It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
PLINY THE ELDERIt has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
PLINY THE ELDERA dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
PLINY THE ELDERThere is always something new out of Africa.
PLINY THE ELDERThe desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
PLINY THE ELDERAn object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
PLINY THE ELDERSuicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
PLINY THE ELDERMan alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
PLINY THE ELDERExample is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
PLINY THE ELDERAlways act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
PLINY THE ELDEROur civilization depends largely on paper.
PLINY THE ELDERNothing is so unequal as equality.
PLINY THE ELDERLet not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
PLINY THE ELDERIn wine, there’s truth.
PLINY THE ELDERA god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
PLINY THE ELDERWine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
PLINY THE ELDERWe ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
PLINY THE ELDER